Blog Entry #4

Title: “Fighting Starvation, Haitians Share Portions”

Summary:
Many survivors of the Haiti earthquake have very little food to eat, most of the kids have to share with thier familys that they have.It has been seen that there is an estimated almost 2 million Haitians that are need of food indeed.  The majority of the earthquake victims do not digest at least one whole meal to sustain/fulfill themselves from hunger.  The little food that the country once had has been perished thanks to the earthquake, causing prices for cuisine to sky rocket.


Reflection:
This article is very disappointing. This is very crazy how they are letting these little kids starve to death. If i were these people i do not think that i can live without i will probably die because i don't think that i will be able to be away from food that long. People should care because would this type of situation was happening to them they would want someone to help them to. They will be doing the same thing as the people in Haiti are doing by stealing food so they won't starve to death. They should really donate to Haiti because people are dieing just because they do not have any money.


Evidence:


"The communal rationing, along with signs all over the city that say “S O S” and “we need food,” suggests that the food crisis here is growing."


"And food imports — typically 48 percent of the nation’s total food consumption, according to the United Nations — have slowed to a trickle. "


"Children are most likely to return with something to eat, but no matter what is found, or how hungry the forager, everything must be shared."

Questions:

What can people do to help?
Where is the main food source coming from?
How many have already died from starvation?
What kind of food are they eating to survive?
Approximately how many have been killed or injured due to fighting over food?

Works Cited:

Cave, Damien. “Fighting Starvation, Haitians Share Portions.” 2010 Jan. 25. New York Times.
2010 Jan. 28 .

Picture

Photo taken by Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Caption: The government of René Préval handed out 10,000 bags of food, worth $50 each. Six thousand of those food bags were handed out at the Cite de Soleil police headquarters.

Blog Entry #3

Title: “Haiti’s Children Adrift in World of Chaos”

Summary:

Since many of their parents have passed or are missing from the earthquake.More than a thousands of children all over Haiti have been abandoned and are left to survive on their own. It has been seen on the news that 45 percent of Haitian children are survivors from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.Even though the earthquake happened nearly two weeks ago. A lot of the childrens have been in genuinely bad injuries. The UNICEF foundation is trying to search for a monitor for the few kids that are still alive. UNICEF is also trying to set up an adoption agency, so that kids who have no living relatives can find a lovely home.



Reflection:
I feel that this is a really hurtful situation that is happening right now. I think that UNICEF is a really good foundation because its exciting how they are helping the children's find their parents. This is crazy how many kids that had died from the earthquake because the earthquake really hit hard. It's crazy how it just happen like two weeks ago and how many people died from it. I feel really sad of how many people died.


Evidence:

"Haiti’s children, 45 percent of the population, are among the most disoriented and vulnerable of the survivors of the earthquake."


“The children of Haiti, unless they get help, they will have lost their childhoods, their innocence, Elisabeth Delatour Préval, Haiti’s first lady, said Tuesday"


“...A lot of group therapy” would be needed to make the children of Haiti feel safe again."

Questions:

How is UNICEF going to keep the percentage of surviving kids from increasing?
What are some solutions from reducing the amount of kids from getting introduced into Sex trafficking?
Will UNICEF’s database actually do what it’s intended to do?
What are some ways Haitians can find out if any of their relatives or friends survived the earthquake?


Work Cited:

ALL information, pictures and quotes were found using the following:

Sontag, Deborah. “Haiti’s Children Adrift in World of Chaos.” 2010 Jan. 26. New York Times.

2010 Jan. 28.

Picture

Taken By Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Caption: Lovely, 8, and her sister, Mariefleur Morin 7, have been orphaned by the earthquake. Frades, a local collective that does everything from providing microloans to serving hot meals, is looking after them.

Blog Entry #2

Title: “What caused the devastating Haiti Earthquake?”

Summary:

The Caribbean and North American that run through Haiti moved about 20mm. This situation was caused from a lot of damage coming from the two plates. This impact was super close, the force was more stronger than it would be if it was further away from the Earth surface. A different way why the earthquake was so unbelievable is because it lasted about 1 minute to 35 seconds. This isn’t good because a lot of Haiti’s buildings, homes and food markets weren’t built nor designed to uphold an earthquake.

Reflection:

When I heard about the Haiti Earthquake I was sad. I was really focus on the children I was shocked when I seen the little baby's being found under the big buildings. I really wanted to help them out and donate a lot of money for the children’s to get food so they will not starve. It was really crazy how many people died in Haiti and how many people have got found.

Evidence:

“The shaking started on Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 4:53 p.m. ET in the Haiti region, just 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince.”

“The threat is not over.”So far we have monitored over 40 aftershocks ranging from 4.5 all the way up to 5.9," Bedwell said. About 14 of those aftershocks were magnitude 5.0 or larger. And they expect more in the coming weeks”

“All of these effects get magnified when the infrastructure is shoddy and not built to withstand shaking.”Unfortunately, Haiti has a rather poor economy and not a wonderful building style for earthquake resistance, so we would expect that we would see quite severe and widespread damage from this earthquake," Michael Blanpeid, associate coordinator for theUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program, said in a podcast released today.”

Questions:

What does magnitude mean?
Where are these two plates located, and what do they look like?
Can or will it happen again?
Has this happened before?
What was response of earthquake to Haiti?
What were the expenses of damage?
Where was the core of the earthquake?

Resources:

I found all my of my information and quotes from the following:

“What caused the devastating Haiti earthquake?” MsnBc 13 Jan. 2010. Live Science. 27. Jan. 2010 .

Blog Entry #1

Essential Question: Why was the Haiti earthquake so devastating?

The reason why my partner and I decide to make this particular subject our focal point is because it pretty much will explain why the earthquake turned out the way it did. This subject would give people an overall view that we hope people can perceive further in depth.